Structural Design Patents (Class 703/1)
  • Patent number: 11960798
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems related for creating multi-unit structure plans. An example method may comprise obtaining land plot data and environmental data. The example method may comprise obtaining building type data. The example method may comprise obtaining legal rules and/or regulations data. The example method may comprise obtaining building demands data. The example method may comprise creating maximal volume and/or floor area. The example method may comprise creating a first line and additional lines that represent corridors/alleys thereby generating layouts based on the created maximal volume and/or floor area. The example method may comprise applying an optimizer to the generated layouts. The example method may comprise generating numeric results and/or visual representations for a multi-unit structure for a land plot associated with at least a portion of the land plot data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: OUTLINE AI Sp. z o.o.
    Inventors: Jan Paweł Cudzik, Paweł Krzysztof Unger, Alan Krzysztof Szawarski
  • Patent number: 11960797
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for managing retractable privacy partitions to dynamically subdivide spaces in buildings into sub-spaces (or rooms). Retractable privacy partitions are distributed throughout a given space in a building such that the retractable privacy partitions can completely retract into a surface of the given space (for example, the floor or ceiling) such that when they are fully extended, the retractable privacy partitions create separate rooms within the given space, and when fully retracted, the retractable privacy partitions do not significantly impede movement or sightlines throughout the given space. Further disclosed are techniques to manage the retractable privacy partitions based on properties indicative of demand for rooms of various sizes within the given space. Some embodiments further disclose retractable privacy partitions including switchable glass to provide additional flexibility through dynamic opacity along with dynamic extension/retraction of the partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xinlin Wang, Lisa Seacat DeLuca
  • Patent number: 11957604
    Abstract: A system and method for method including receiving data representing coordinates of a shape of a body part, forming a model of a flexible inner liner based upon the received data, the flexible inner liner configured to be placed over the body part, receiving, as input, a thickness and an offset of the model of the flexible inner liner, assigning a default density to an internal structure of the model; and varying the default density of the model without changing an outer geometry of the model to create a modified model of the flexible inner liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PRECISION VALVE & AUTOMATION, INC.
    Inventors: Karin Cecilia Backlin Schaffer, Jeffrey L. Erenstone
  • Patent number: 11961200
    Abstract: In a method for producing three-dimensional model data of a garment having a target garment size, intermediate model data of the garment are stored, which are associated with a base garment size and include intermediate geometry data and at least one intermediate texture map associated with the intermediate geometry data. Through semantic segmentation of the intermediate texture map a label map is generated that associates each element of the intermediate texture map to a respective one of a set of segments of the garment and associated resizing rules. Geometry data for the model data are generated by resizing the intermediate geometry data based on the label map, on the resizing rules, on a body model and on a set of scaling factors between the base garment size and the target garment size. A texture map is generated based on the intermediate texture map, on the label map, on the resizing rules and on the set of scaling factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Reactive Reality GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Hauswiesner, Philipp Grasmug
  • Patent number: 11951009
    Abstract: A method of constructing a patient-specific orthopedic implant comprising: (a) comparing a patient-specific abnormal bone model, derived from an actual anatomy of a patient's abnormal bone, with a reconstructed patient-specific bone model, also derived from the anatomy of the patient's bone, where the reconstructed patient-specific bone model reflects a normalized anatomy of the patient's bone, and where the patient-specific abnormal bone model reflects an actual anatomy of the patient's bone including at least one of a partial bone, a deformed bone, and a shattered bone, wherein the patient-specific abnormal bone model comprises at least one of a patient-specific abnormal point cloud and a patient-specific abnormal bone surface model, and wherein the reconstructed patient-specific bone model comprises at least one of a reconstructed patient-specific point cloud and a reconstructed patient-specific bone surface model; (b) optimizing one or more parameters for a patient-specific orthopedic implant to be mounte
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventor: Mohamed R. Mahfouz
  • Patent number: 11953871
    Abstract: A controller for a building including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include parsing a computer-aided design (CAD) file or a building information model (BIM) file for the building to identify building equipment that operates to affect a variable state or condition of a zone of the building. The operations include generating one or more zone models describing one or more control relationships between the building equipment and the variable state or condition of the zone based on the CAD file or the BIM file. The operations include using the one or more zone models to perform a model-based operation for the building equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Serdar Suindykov, Mohammad N. Elbsat
  • Patent number: 11953879
    Abstract: An agent engine allocates a collection of agents to scan the surface of an object model. Each agent operates autonomously and implements particular behaviors based on the actions of nearby agents. Accordingly, the collection of agents exhibits swarm-like behavior. Over a sequence of time steps, the agents traverse the surface of the object model. Each agent acts to avoid other agents, thereby maintaining a relatively consistent distribution of agents across the surface of the object model over all time steps. At a given time step, the agent engine generates a slice through the object model that intersects each agent in a group of agents. The slice associated with a given time step represents a set of locations where material should be deposited to fabricate a 3D object. Based on a set of such slices, a robot engine causes a robot to fabricate the 3D object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Evan Patrick Atherton, David Thomasson, Maurice Ugo Conti, Heather Kerrick, Nicholas Cote, Hui Li
  • Patent number: 11947336
    Abstract: An apparatus for superimposing prints of a part for manufacture onto computer models of the part for manufacture is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor. The memory containing instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive a computer model of the part for manufacture and a print of a part for manufacture. The processor decomposes a side view of the print, matches features of the part for manufacture in the side view to features of the part for manufacture in the computer model, superimposes a first plurality of object lines in the computing model onto a second plurality of object lines in the side view, and transfers the first semantic datum from the side view to the computer model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Proto Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Shuji Usui
  • Patent number: 11945112
    Abstract: Simulated motion of the papillary muscles in a heart simulator is provided that simulates natural motion of the papillary muscles. This improves heart valve simulation. This can be done with a six degree of freedom robotic actuator (e.g., a Stewart platform or the like) appropriately driven by a controller. This can also be done with a robotic actuator that provides constrained motion of its effector by including a mechanical linkage, as long as the resulting simulated papillary muscle motion includes time-varying position and orientation of the papillary muscle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Y. Joseph Woo, Michael John Paulsen, Annabel M. Imbrie-Moore, Matthew Park, Rohun Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11937988
    Abstract: Disclosed is a denture tray for visual marking and a manufacturing method thereof. The method comprises: establishing a three-dimensional model of a target dentition of a target patient; obtaining a three-dimensional model of a substrate of a denture tray based on the three-dimensional model of the target dentition; providing a through hole at a preset position on the three-dimensional model of the substrate of the denture tray; establishing a three-dimensional model of a fixed connection portion on an outer side surface of the three-dimensional model of the substrate of the denture tray to form a three-dimensional model of the denture tray, wherein the three-dimensional model of the fixed connection portion is integrally connected with the three-dimensional model of the substrate of the denture tray; and manufacturing the denture tray based on the three-dimensional model of the denture tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING YAKEBOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Lifeng Wang, Chen Shen, Jianyong Ren, Hongpeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11937996
    Abstract: Apparatuses (e.g., systems, devices, etc.) and method for scanning both a subject's face as well as the subject's intra oral cavity to provide two-dimensional (2D) and/or three dimensional (3D) data that may be subsequently used in prosthodontic and orthodontic procedures, including smile planning (e.g., designing or modifying a subject's overall smile or facial aesthetics).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Sharon Peleg
  • Patent number: 11941332
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to space model generation. A computing platform may receive space program data identifying parameters of a physical space. The computing platform may load a geometry model defining a plurality of design rules. The computing platform may generate space models for the physical space based on the space program data and the geometry model. Based on the geometry model, the computing platform may produce a score for each space model. Based on the scores, the computing platform may produce a ranked list of space models. The computing platform may generate user interface data comprising the ranked list of space models. The computing platform may send the user interface data comprising the ranked list of space models, which may cause a user computing device to display a user interface including a portion of the ranked list of space models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Herman Miller, Inc.
    Inventors: Dudley E. Whitney, James L Van Dragt, Christopher J. Rysko, Cindy Y. Vannoy, Christopher L Taylor
  • Patent number: 11934982
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes obtaining, by the computer, assay data for a feedstock containing measurements for one or more aspects of the first feedstock, a first equipment model containing properties of processing units, and processing conditions containing one or more variables by which the first feedstock will be processed by the processing units. The computer determines a corrosion amount of the processing units using the processing conditions, the properties of the processing units contained in the equipment model, and the assay data for the feedstock, and stores/displays the corrosion amount of the processing units. A safety warning may be displayed, and the feedstock rejected if the corrosion amount exceeds a predetermined safety level for one or more of the processing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Sridhar Srinivasan, Kwei Meng Yap
  • Patent number: 11934744
    Abstract: Systems and methods for customizing a building floor plan are provided. In one embodiment, a method for customizing a building floor plan comprises: at an electronic device with a display: receiving a request to modify one or more building components of a base plan associated with a building; in response to receiving the request to modify the one or more building components, determining whether the request to modify the one or more building components satisfy one or more compliance requirements; in accordance with a determination that the request to modify the one or more building components satisfy one or more compliance requirements: displaying, on the display, an updated base plan incorporating the request to modify the one or more building components; and in accordance with a determination that the request to modify the one or more building components is non-compliant, not updating of the base plan in accordance with the requested modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: UTECTURE GLOBAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Timothy Ronan Williams, Kyle Francis Donovan, Brett Norman Donovan
  • Patent number: 11934745
    Abstract: The disclosure notably relates to a computer-implemented method for designing, with a CAD system, a 3D modeled object representing a mechanical part. The method includes obtaining a B-rep representing the mechanical part. The B-Rep has faces and edges. The method further includes obtaining a first set of faces and a feature type. The feature type is either a depression feature type or a protrusion feature type. The method further comprises, automatically by the CAD system, recognizing a second set of faces within the first set of faces. The second set of faces represents a feature of the provided feature type. This constitutes an improved method for designing a mechanical part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes
    Inventor: Laurent Marini
  • Patent number: 11934242
    Abstract: Provided, in one aspect, is a data center. The data center, in this aspect, includes a data center enclosure, the data center enclosure designed for a given supply of power (Ps). The data center, according to this aspect, further includes N independent coolable clusters of data center racks located within the data center enclosure, wherein N is at least two, and further wherein the N independent coolable clusters each have an ostensible power demand (Pos) approximately equal to Ps/N, and each of the N independent coolable clusters has a respective actual power demand (Pac) adjustable at, above or below the ostensible power demand (Pos).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventor: Alex R. Naderi
  • Patent number: 11934162
    Abstract: A processor may receive an input dataset. The input dataset may include a plurality of construction components and one or more performance factors of the building/structure. A processor may generate a digital twin of the building/structure using the input dataset. A processor may simulate, using the digital twin, one or more features of the building/structure. The simulating may include a forecast having one or more predicted conditions associated with the building/structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11934743
    Abstract: The invention discloses a toric mirror surface shape measurement method. The measurement method is as follows: first, according to the parameter information of the toric mirror to be measured, using three-dimensional modeling software, establish a CAD model of the toric mirror to be measured and then import the CAD model into the three-coordinate machine software, based on the three-coordinate machine to measure and construct the geometric characteristics of the solid toric mirror, establish the workpiece coordinate system, which is consistent with the CAD model coordinate system. Finally, use the three-coordinate machine to perform scanning measurements to the solid toric mirror and compare the scanning result with the theoretical value to obtain the measurement result data. The measurement method of the present invention is based on the three-coordinate measurement technology and has the advantages of strong operability and high measurement accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MLOptic Corp.
    Inventors: Zhide Su, Zhiping Song
  • Patent number: 11928873
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and wearable extended reality devices for generating a floorplan of an indoor scene are provided. A room classification of a room and a wall classification of a wall for the room may be determined from an input image of the indoor scene. A floorplan may be determined based at least in part upon the room classification and the wall classification without constraining a total number of rooms in the indoor scene or a size of the room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Ameya Pramod Phalak
  • Patent number: 11929139
    Abstract: Methods of optimizing the placement of memories in a memory device including a substrate and an electrical component, and associated devices and systems, are disclosed herein. A representative method includes first testing the memories to determine at least one parameter for each of the memories indicating an ability of the memory to process signals from the electrical component. The method can further include labeling each memory with a label based on the parameter, the labels including at least a first label and a second label. The first label can indicate that the memories with the first label are better able to process signals from the electrical component than the memories with the second label. The method can further include electrically coupling the memories to the substrate such that the memories with the second label are positioned closer to the electrical component than the memories with the first label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James S. Rehmeyer, Christopher G. Wieduwilt
  • Patent number: 11918435
    Abstract: A method for producing an adaptive element for dental implantation includes: creating a 3D virtual model including a crown part and a root part; obtaining a boundary curve between the crown part and the root part; defining a boundary plane on the root part perpendicular to a vertical axis of the 3D virtual model and spaced apart from the boundary curve; projecting the boundary curve on the boundary plane in a direction parallel to the vertical axis; generating a tubular model having a predetermined thickness based on the boundary curve, a virtual surface connected from the boundary curve to the cutting plane, and the cutting plane; and producing the adaptive element according to the tubular model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventors: Hsin-Yu Kuo, Tsung-Fu Hung, Po-Jan Kuo
  • Patent number: 11922125
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for utilizing ensemble learning methods to extract semantics of data in buildings by retrieving a plurality of data sets from a plurality of data sources associated with an automated environment; labeling a subset of the plurality of data sets by applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) on manufacturer specifications to generate a plurality of labels associated with the subset of the plurality of data sets, respectively; training a learning model on the subset of the plurality of data sets and the plurality of labels; and applying the learning model on remanding subset of the plurality of data sets to generate a semantic map indicative of semantic arrangement of the plurality of data sources associated with the automated environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MAPPED INC.
    Inventor: Jason Koh
  • Patent number: 11915407
    Abstract: A computer-based system and method for taking clarity measurements of a gem, and a computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions, are provided and include receiving a pixilated image of a gem and identifying pixels representing an inclusion. The method and medium further include determining characteristics of the inclusion as a function of the pixels representing the inclusion, and providing a clarity grade based upon the determined characteristics. Also provided is a method for mapping a gem, and a computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions, which include receiving a pixilated image of a gem having facet edges, and identifying pixels representing the facet edges. The method and medium further include generating a diagram of the gem, such that the diagram is a function of the pixels representing the facet edges, and superimposing the diagram onto the pixilated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA)
    Inventors: Marc Verboven, Troy Blodgett, Dirk Nuyts
  • Patent number: 11915288
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to systems, methods, and machine readable media for facilitating online purchasing. In general, techniques are disclosed to facilitate online and mobile purchasing. The disclosure includes technology that allows an agnostic shopping experience, i.e., the shopping may occur on a vendor neutral platform. According to one or more embodiments, facilitating online purchasing may allow a person to purchase correctly sized products or products suited to the need, more conveniently, more consistently, more cheaply and more easily. The more accurate or correct shopping of products saves the wasting of resources required in return shipments and replacement shipments and packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventor: Jo Anne Kauffman Clark
  • Patent number: 11915456
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of encoding/decoding attributes of points of a pint cloud are provided. The encoding method subdivides a bounding box bounding the points to be encoded, encodes data representative of attributes of a point by referring to a subdivision to which said point belongs to; and encode data representative of a number of points comprised in each subdivision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Yannick Olivier, Jean-Claude Chevet, Joan Llach
  • Patent number: 11907620
    Abstract: A smart plan portal that is used in conjunction with a computer aided design (CAD) software application module. The smart plan portal provides a library of predesigned elements that are presented for selection and placement for building design. Each placed element automatically integrates with adjacent elements and the overall building design. Based on the building design using the library of elements, structural components and equipment components are generated. Each component is associated with a digital identifier that is used to identify a number of attributes for the associated component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PATCO, LLC
    Inventors: John Louis Vanker, Michael J. Lastowski
  • Patent number: 11900019
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for rendering multi-layer computer-aided design related documents are described. A described technique includes accessing layers associated with a floorplan, the layers including a visual layer that depicts the floorplan and an interactive layer that enables user interaction with the visual layer. The layers can have different sizes. The technique includes determining outer boundaries for a selected layer. The technique includes generating a boundary layer based on a polygon defined by the outer boundaries that surrounds layer content. The technique includes scaling, based on the boundary layer, one or more of the layers to have a size that is within a threshold distance of the boundary layer's size, and after scaling, aligning the visual layer and the interactive layer in a merged graphics layer so that the interactive layer can detect user interaction with a corresponding portion of the visual layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Nuvolo Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Ye, Khoa Nguyen Van Ho, Tejas Yadav
  • Patent number: 11898212
    Abstract: A method and device for blast furnace state monitoring based on multi-modes fusion. In the process of blast furnace state monitoring, the concept of sub-mode is introduced, and the method for pre-acquisition and multi-modes weighted fusion by sub-mode is proposed to monitor blast furnace state. After preprocessing the main parameter data of the blast furnace, several sub-modes of the blast furnace and their corresponding blast furnace state indication variable data are obtained by means of a mean shift clustering algorithm. Taking the real-time parameter data of the blast furnace as inputs, the Euclidean distance between the real-time parameter data of the blast furnace and each sub-mode is calculated, and the sub-modes are weighted and fused according to the distance, and the fusion result is the real-time blast furnace state, so as to realize the real-time state monitoring of the blast furnace in a smooth operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Tang, Xin Wang, Chunjie Yang, Wenhai Wang
  • Patent number: 11888701
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for improving self-healing and resiliency of radio-based networks through the use of a community model. In one embodiment, a community model graph representing a radio-based network is generated. Individual nodes of the community model graph correspond to one or more network functions of the radio-based network. Individual edges of the community model graph correspond to a respective network connection between the network function(s) of the radio-based network. The individual edges are assigned a respective measure of relative importance. An adverse health event is detected that impacts a plurality of network connections between network functions in the radio-based network. Self-healing activities for the network connections are prioritized based at least in part on the respective measures of relative importance corresponding to individual network connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yuan-An Liu, Arnold Cataniag
  • Patent number: 11877906
    Abstract: Systems and methods for rapidly and reliably determining an arch with of a patient's dental arch. A first portion of a 3D model of a patient's dentition is identified that corresponds to a first target tooth, the first portion of the 3D model is associated with one or more attributes of the first target tooth. A second portion of the 3D model is identified that corresponds to a second target tooth opposing the first target tooth. The second portion is associated with one or more attributes of the second target tooth. The arch width is automatically measured based on the attributes of the first and second target teeth. A graphic representing the arch width is overlayed on the patient's dentition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Svetlana Makarenkova, Ilya Agafonov, Boris Likhtman, Pavel Sokolov, Vladimir Fedorov
  • Patent number: 11874809
    Abstract: A building system of a building, the building system comprising one or more memory devices storing instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive building metadata, the building metadata describing a plurality of components of the building, generate, based on the building metadata, a plurality of entities, each of the plurality of entities representing one of the plurality of components, and determine, based on the building metadata, relationships between the plurality of entities. The instructions cause the one or more processors to generate a plurality of metadata strings in a universal building schema comprising a plurality of characters representing a first entity of the plurality of entities, one or more second entities of the plurality of entities related to the first entity, and one or more relationships between the first entity and the one or more second entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: ZhongYi Jin, Erik S. Paulson, Simin Zhou, Ryan A. Piaskowski, Youngchoon Park
  • Patent number: 11875535
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for calibrating an external parameter of a camera are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiao Tan, Hao Sun
  • Patent number: 11875296
    Abstract: Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for assessing sustainability of a building design. The techniques include receiving a building design for a budding and sustainability certification data describing a plurality of sustainability certification systems; selecting one or more particular sustainability certification systems from the plurality of sustainability certification systems; computing a respective sustainability certification value for each sustainability certification system of the one or more particular sustainability certification systems; and performing one or more building design operations based on sustainability certification system values for the one or more particular sustainability certification systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: David Benjamin, Damon Lau, James Stoddart, Lorenzo Villaggi, Rui Wang, Lindsey Wikstrom
  • Patent number: 11875091
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for evaluating computational fluid dynamic simulation results. The method includes, based on a set of initial conditions, performing a first baseline run and a second baseline run of a simulated area or volume containing a vehicle body shape, and then performing a change run of the simulated area or volume containing a modified vehicle body shape, and performing the following actions within the simulated area or volume: plotting an iso line of the first baseline run and a corresponding iso line of the second baseline run, plotting an iso line of the change run that corresponds to the iso line of the two baseline runs, and comparing whether the iso line of the change run falls between the iso lines of the two basline runs. If not, then the modification to the vehicle body shape may be considered significant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Brian T. Thurgate
  • Patent number: 11869210
    Abstract: A method for proposing a location of a display device, includes: scanning, by an augmented reality device, an indoor space; receiving, by the augmented reality device, viewing environment information including viewing space information, viewing time information and viewing content information to the augmented reality device; and proposing, by the augmented reality device, an optimal location/type of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: So Young Kwon, Woo Young Cheon, Ja Eun Lee
  • Patent number: 11859964
    Abstract: Some embodiments described herein relate to optical systems and methods for determining the shape and/or size of objects that include projecting a pattern of light onto the object. The pattern of light can be configured such that first-order reflections can be distinguished from second- and/or higher-order reflections, which can be rejected. Thus, even in instances in which the pattern of light is reflected onto the object multiple times, the original, or first-order, reflection can be detected, distinguished, and/or used for laser triangulation. In some embodiments, a pattern of light that does not have reflection and/or rotational symmetry is projected onto the object, such that second-order and/or higher-order reflections can be distinguished from the first-order reflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: PATH ROBOTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander James Lonsberry, Andrew Gordon Lonsberry
  • Patent number: 11853045
    Abstract: Accurate wiring work shall be efficiently performed when a module group included in a control system for an industrial machine is installed. An installation support apparatus includes an image information acquisition part configured to acquire a camera image of a module included in a control system for an industrial machine, a design information acquisition part configured to specify the module on the basis of the camera image, and acquire design information relevant to wiring of the module, and a projection information processing part configured to generate a projection image based on the design information, allowing to be projected onto a position corresponding to the camera image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuuki Fujita
  • Patent number: 11853916
    Abstract: A method for determining optimal path arrangements for an infrastructure link between two geographic locations. The method includes modelling a geographic terrain containing the two geographic locations; optimizing an arrangement cost and a repair rate for two or more potential paths based on the modelled geographic terrain, an arrangement cost model, and a repair rate model, taking into account at least two design levels; and determining the optimal path arrangements each including multiple path portions and respective design levels associated with the path portions based on the optimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: City Universtiy of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Moshe Zukerman, Zengfu Wang, Qing Wang, Bill Moran, Elias Tahchi
  • Patent number: 11846772
    Abstract: Methods to design centered imaging systems by solving differential equations derived from Fermat's principle consist of a sequence of (moveable or fixed) spherical or aspherical surfaces, or combinations thereof. The power series solution approach allow calculating of a predefined number of surfaces parameters equal to a number of selected aberration terms to vanish nominally. The methods provide mapping functions coefficients that allow describing exactly where arbitrary rays intersect each individual surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
    Inventors: Fabian Durr, Hugo Thienpont
  • Patent number: 11847912
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include a system for generating traffic work zones. The system may receive, via a first GUI of a user device, a first request to generate a traffic work zone, the first request comprising at least a location of the traffic work zone. Responsive to receiving the first request, the system may retrieve, via a database, one or more regulations associated with the location of the traffic work zone; determine, based on the one or more regulations, one or more required materials associated with the location of the traffic work zone; generate a second GUI configured to display a map of the location of the traffic work zone and at least one of the one or more required materials overlaid on the map; and cause the user device to display the second GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Traffic Safety Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Clark, Shan Watkins
  • Patent number: 11847383
    Abstract: A method for determining a performance of a subgrade of an expressway section and a processing device thereof are used to accurately calculate a stress, a displacement, a velocity and an acceleration at any position inside the subgrade while analyzing the performance of the subgrade of the target expressway section, in full consideration of the moving speed and vibration characteristics of the vehicle load, the layered characteristics of the expressway and the unsaturated characteristics of the subgrade soil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF ROCK AND SOIL MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Zheng Lu, Chuxuan Tang, Hailin Yao, Yang Zhao, Jie Liu
  • Patent number: 11847485
    Abstract: Network-efficient isolation environment redistribution is described. In one example, network communications are surveyed among isolation environments, such as virtual machines (VMs) and containers, hosted on a cluster. An affinity for network communications between the isolation environments can be identified based on the survey. Pairs or groups of the isolation environments can be examined to identify ones which have an affinity for network communications between them but are also hosted on different host machines in the cluster. The identification of the affinity for network communications provides network-level context for migration decisions by a distributed resource scheduler. Certain VMs and/or containers can then be migrated by the distributed resource scheduler to reduce the network communications in the cluster based on the network-level context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Shirish Vijayvargiya, Priyal Rathi, Shailendra Singh Rana, Rayanagouda Bheemanagouda Patil
  • Patent number: 11843609
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computing cloud for monitoring physical environments. The computing cloud comprises at least one data storage unit that is configured to store project data, diagnostic data or environmental metric data. The computing cloud also comprises a system project application module that is configured to allow a user to graphically explore at least the project data, and to control graphical access to one or more application modules based on a user's credentials. The one or more application modules comprise a module that is configured to graphically facilitate the user's creation and manipulation of a virtual model of a physical environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Mark Henricus Verberkt, Seth Van Roemburg, Marcin Gramza, Marcin Klecha
  • Patent number: 11841691
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a data structure and a processing portion. The data structure is configured to share design information among a time chart, a flowchart, and a sequence program. The processing portion is configured to process the time chart, the flowchart, and the sequence program such that the time chart, the flowchart, and the sequence program link together, depending on the data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Murakami, Yoshiaki Hiraoka, Kota Sakuma
  • Patent number: 11836435
    Abstract: Certain aspects are directed to apparatus and techniques for estimating parasitic information associated with routing of a design using a pre-route version of the design. One example method generally includes determining one or more output features using a machine learning model based on a pre-route version of a design of an integrated circuit, where the one or more output features include a density map providing an estimate of a density of elements associated with a routed version of the design. The method also includes estimating parasitic information associated with the design based on the one or more output features, and outputting the parasitic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Seungil Kang, Koohak Kim, Prasanna Srinivas
  • Patent number: 11829842
    Abstract: Techniques for enhancing quantum circuit execution in a quantum service are presented. Database component stores compiled unitaries associated with quantum functions. Unitary management component (UMC) determines whether to compile a unitary associated with a quantum function for storage in the database component based on a composite quality score associated with the unitary and a threshold composite quality score associated with the quantum function, wherein the threshold score can be, or can be based on, a composite quality score of a compiled unitary that performs the same quantum function or a compiled unitary that performs a different quantum function. UMC determines the composite quality score based on a group of factors comprising frequency of utilizing the quantum function or equivalent quantum function or computation, age of the quantum function or computation, difficulty level of compiling a unitary, quantum circuit quality, or error associated with experimental execution of the quantum function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ali Javadiabhari, Dmitri Maslov
  • Patent number: 11829687
    Abstract: A method for inversion of a path mileage and offset by using a known coordinate point, comprising: based on coordinates of a known point P and curve elements of a start location and an end location of a curve element, first segmenting or not segmenting the curve element according to a corner of the curve element to obtain a plurality of curve sub-elements (AiBi), and calculating curve elements of the curve sub-elements (AiBi); taking any curve sub-element (AiBi) to calculate a half chord length S and a straight corner ?, and performing precision determination and convergence correction according to S and ?, the point P being always effective with respect to the curve sub-element (AiBi) in the correction process; and performing cyclic convergence calculation to finally obtain a distance from the point P to any point on a chord line or an arc line as an offset of the curve sub-element (AiBi) corresponding to the point P and to obtain a mileage of the curve sub-element (AiBi) corresponding to the point P.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: China Railway No. 2 Engineering Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiyu Yang, Zhang Yang, Shi Zhou, Kaosheng Wang, Lizheng Liu, Hua Jiang, Yong Yan, Jun He, Taisheng Duan, Ping Guo
  • Patent number: 11828848
    Abstract: A method of operating a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system is provided that includes performing a scene measurement using a LiDAR sensor capable of measuring Doppler per point. The method also includes estimating a velocity of the LiDAR sensor with respect to static points within the scene based on the scene measurement. The method may also include compensating for the velocity of the LiDAR sensor and compensating for a Doppler velocity of the LiDAR sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Aeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruno Hexsel, Mina Rezk
  • Patent number: 11830198
    Abstract: A surgical instrument navigation system and method of use is provided that visually simulates a virtual volumetric scene of a body cavity of a patient from a point of view of a surgical instrument residing in the cavity of the patient, wherein the surgical instrument, as provided, may be a steerable surgical catheter with a biopsy device and/or a surgical catheter with a side-exiting medical instrument, among others. Additionally, systems, methods and devices are provided for forming a respiratory-gated point cloud of a patient's respiratory system and for placing a localization element in an organ of a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Troy L. Holsing, Mark Hunter
  • Patent number: 11829686
    Abstract: A network system can optimize 3D models for 3D printing. A smoothing operation can be performed for a 3D model that comprises a plurality of voxels by identifying exterior voxels of the 3D model. For a first exterior voxel of the 3D model, an exterior surface orientation can be determined and a smoothing operation can be performed based on the determined exterior surface orientation. The smoothing operation can include performing a triangulation operation based on the determined exterior surface orientation of the first exterior voxel. Furthermore, in response to determining that a dimension of a set of voxels is below a threshold limit, one or more voxels can be added to the set of voxels to satisfy the threshold limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: INTEGRAL REALITY LABS, INC.
    Inventors: Baha'Aldeen Abunojaim, Muhannad Taslaq, Hasan Aadab Alhimish